Explore Rock Mills, Alabama, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rock Mills, Alabama. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alabama or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Rock Mills.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Rock Mills |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Randolph County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.159843 |
| Longitude | -85.287446 |
| Population | 603 |
| Density | 36.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 36274 |
| Area Code | 334 |
| County Seat | Wedowee |
| School District | Randolph County School District |
Rock Mills reveals itself through the persistent, low-slung hum of Wehadkee Creek as it carves a path through the dense, red-clay earth. It lies 24.4 miles north-northwest of Valley, AL (from Valley, AL: bearing 345°T), and is situated 4.9 miles east of Roanoke. The landscape surrounding Rock Mills consists of dense woodland and heavy bottomland hardwood, where the humid air hangs thick and still beneath a canopy of longleaf pine. Light filters through the leaves in muted, shifting shades of ochre and emerald, casting long, lean shadows across the irregular terrain that slopes toward the distant rise of Swan Hill. Four miles away, the expansive waters of West Point Lake offer a quiet stillness, mirroring the cloud-streaked sky and providing a stark, liquid contrast to the textured, earthen floor of the surrounding pine barrens.
Economic life in Rock Mills remains tethered to the slow pulse of the land and the memory of early industrial milling that once defined its founding character. Generations have parsed the soil here, working the fields that bloom with the seasonal promise of peaches and pecans, maintaining a connection to the ground that is both demanding and patient. The quietude of the afternoons is interrupted only by the rustle of wind through the pines or the infrequent transit of a vehicle on the red-clay back roads. Visitors seeking the solace of the outdoors often gravitate toward the recreational opportunities at the nearby West Point Lake, yet the true essence of Rock Mills resides in its measured pace, a place where the passage of time is marked not by clocks, but by the gradual cooling of the air as the sun descends behind the tree line.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rock Mills, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.159843, -85.287446. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Rock Mills includes the ZIP code (36274), telephone area code (334), county seat of Randolph County (Wedowee), and school district assignment (Randolph County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |